Year-End Lists

The A.V. Club: 10 Favorite Books of 2018

[see also 2021 • 2020 • 2017 • 2015]

• The Largesse of the Sea Maiden
  Denis Johnson
• I Wrote This Book Because I Love You
  Tim Kreider
• The Gone World
  Tom Sweterlitsch
• Circe
  Madeline Miller
• My Year of Rest and Relaxation
  Ottessa Moshfegh
• Comemadre
  Roque Larraquy
• The Incendiaries
  R.O. Kwon
• Severance
  Ling Ma
• The Collected Stories of Diane Williams
  Diane Williams
• The Best Bad Things
  Katrina Carrasco

A.O. Scott: Best Movies of 2018, as published by The New York Times

[see also 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2010s • 2019 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014 • 2013 • 2012 • 2011]

1. Monrovia, Indiana
   Frederick Wiseman
1. Bisbee '17
   Robert Greene
1. Hale County This Morning, This Evening
   RaMell Ross
1. Minding the Gap
   Bing Liu
2. Happy as Lazzaro
   Alice Rohrwacher
3. First Reformed
   Paul Schrader
4. Private Life
   Tamara Jenkins
5. Roma
   Alfonso Cuaron
6. Let the Sunshine In
   Claire Denis
7. Can You Ever Forgive Me?
   Marielle Heller
8. BlacKkKlansman
   Spike Lee
9. Capernaum
   Nadine Labaki
10. The Favourite
    Yorgos Lanthimos

The Runners-Up

• The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
  Joel & Ethan Coen
• Black Panther
  Ryan Coogler
• Custody
  Xavier Legrand
• If Beale Street Could Talk
  Barry Jenkins
• The Rider
  Chloé Zhao
• Shoplifters
  Hirokazu Kore-eda
• Sorry to Bother You
  Boots Riley
• Support the Girls
  Andrew Bujalski
• Western
  Valeska Grisebach
• Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
  Morgan Neville
• Zama
  Lucrecia Martel

Alan Sepinwall: 20 Best TV Shows of 2018, as published by Rolling Stone

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2010s • 2019 • 2017 • 2016]

Honorable Mentions

• Lodge 49
• Maniac
• Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
• Billions
• Counterpart
• Bob’s Burgers
• F Is for Family
• Sorry for Your Loss
• It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
• Speechless
• The Handmaid’s Tale
• Brockmire
• GLOW
• The Magicians
• Detroiters
• Kidding

1. Atlanta
2. The Americans
3. BoJack Horseman
4. Killing Eve
5. My Brilliant Friend
6. Better Call Saul
7. Big Mouth
8. Barry
9. Sharp Objects
10. Pose
11. The Good Place
12. Homecoming
13. Babylon Berlin
14. American Vandal
15. Brooklyn Nine-Nine
16. The Deuce
17. The Kominsky Method
18. One Day at a Time
19. The End of the F***ing World
20. Cobra Kai

Manohla Dargis: Best Movies of 2018, as published by The New York Times

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2010s • 2019 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014 • 2013 • 2012 • 2011]

1. Roma
   Alfonso Cuaron
2. Burning
   Lee Chang-dong
3. Shoplifters
   Hirokazu Kore-eda
4. Zama
   Lucrecia Martel
5. Happy as Lazzaro
   Alice Rohrwacher
6. BlacKkKlansman
   Spike Lee
7. First Reformed
   Paul Schrader
8. The Death of Stalin
   Armando Iannucci
9. Monrovia, Indiana
   Frederick Wiseman
10. Colophon (for the Arboretum Cycle)
    Nathaniel Dorsky

Honor Roll

• At Eternity’s Gate
  Julian Schnabel
• Black Panther
  Ryan Coogler
• Bodied
  Joseph Kahn
• Cold War
  Pawel Pawlikowski
• The Day After
  Hong Sang-soo
• Destroyer
  Karyn Kusama
• Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun?
  Travis Wilkerson
• Eighth Grade
  Bo Burnham
• Golden Exits
  Alex Ross Perry
• The Guardians
  Xavier Beauvois
• Hale County This Morning, This Evening
  RaMell Ross
• If Beale Street Could Talk
  Barry Jenkins
• Custody
  Xavier Legrand
• Isle of Dogs
  Wes Anderson
• The King
  Eugene Jarecki
• Lean On Pete
  Andrew Haigh
• Leave No Trace
  Debra Granik
• Lizzie
  Craig William Macneill
• Minding the Gap
  Bing Liu
• The Other Side of the Wind
  Orson Welles
• RBG
  Betsy West and Julie Cohen
• The Rider
  Chloé Zhao
• Shoah: Four Sisters
  Claude Lanzmann
• The Sisters Brothers
  Jacques Audiard
• Skate Kitchen
  Crystal Moselle
• Sorry to Bother You
  Boots Riley
• A Star Is Born
  Bradley Cooper
• Support the Girls
  Andrew Bujalski
• The Third Murder
  Hirokazu Kore-eda
• Three Identical Strangers
  Tim Wardle
• Vox Lux
  Brady Corbet
• Western
  Valeska Grisebach

Matthew Jacobs: 20 Best Movies Of 2018, as published by HuffPost

[see also 2020 • 2017]

1. The Favourite
   Yorgos Lanthimos
2. Can You Ever Forgive Me?
   Marielle Heller
3. Widows
   Steve McQueen
4. Sorry to Bother You
   Boots Riley
5. Suspiria
   Luca Guadagnino
6. A Star Is Born
   Bradley Cooper
7. Eighth Grade
   Bo Burnham
8. Annihilation
   Alex Garland
9. Roma
   Alfonso Cuaron
10. The Old Man & the Gun
    David Lowery
11. Burning
    Lee Chang-dong
12. Paddington 2
    Paul King
13. The Tale
    Jennifer Fox
14. Hereditary
    Ari Aster
15. Support the Girls
    Andrew Bujalski
16. The Rider
    Chloé Zhao
17. Mission: Impossible – Fallout
    Christopher McQuarrie
18. Thoroughbreds
    Cory Finley
19. Skate Kitchen
    Crystal Moselle
20. A Simple Favor
    Paul Feig

The Quietus: Albums of the Year 2018

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014 • 2013 • 2012 • 2011]

1. Pastoral
   Gazelle Twin
2. An Angel Fell
   Idris Ackamoor & The Pyramids
3. Insecure Men
   Insecure Men
4. The Blue Hour
   Suede
5. Cocoon Crush
   Objekt
6. We Are Ill
   ILL
7. Your Queen Is a Reptile
   Sons of Kemet
8. Double Negative
   Low
9. Now! (In a Minute)
   Audiobooks
10. Who Do You Love
    Årabrot
11. Dirty Computer
    Janelle Monáe
12. Mogic
    Hen Ogledd
13. You Won't Get What You Want
    Daughters
14. Working Class Woman
    Marie Davidson
15. Daytona
    Pusha T
16. A Laughing Death in Meatspace
    Tropical Fuck Storm
17. Chemistry Lessons, Vol. 1
    Chris Carter
18. Red Goddess (Of This Men Shall Know Nothing)
    Hawthonn
19. Wet Will Always Dry
    Blawan
20. Aviary
    Julia Holter
21. The Scars of Man on the Once Nameless Wilderness
    Panopticon
22. Sujud
    Senyawa
23. Grid of Points
    Grouper
24. Unfold
    Gábor Lázár
25. Solan Goose
    Erland Cooper
26. Slowly Paradise
    Eric Chenaux
27. Powerhouse
    PLANNINGTOROCK
28. Oil of Every Pearl’s Un-Insides
    Sophie
29. Multum in Parvo
    Todd Barton
30. Ambition Will Eat Itself
    The Yossarians
31. The Long Sleep
    Jenny Hval
32. The Sound of Music
    Laibach
33. Here Lies the Body
    Aidan Moffat & RM Hubbert
34. Dimensional People
    Mouse On Mars
35. Compro
    Skee Mask
36. Physical
    Gabe Gurnsey
37. Reckonings
    Laura Cannell & Andre Bosman
38. Safe in the Hands of Love
    Yves Tumor
39. New Hymn to Freedom
    Szun Waves
40. Chapel Perilous
    Gnod
41. Something Blue
    Blocks & Escher
42. Spa 700
    700 Bliss
43. Devotion
    Tirzah
44. My Mother the Vent
    Guttersnipe
45. Everywhere At The End Of Time – Stage 5
    The Caretaker
46. Isolation
    Kali Uchis
47. Sonder Somatic
    Bruce
48. Don’t Look Away
    Alexander Tucker
49. All Is Quiet At The Ancient Theatre
    Alison Cotton
50. Khonnar
    Deena Abdelwahed
51. Head Cage
    Pig Destroyer
52. IRISIRI
    Eartheater
53. Goat Girl
    Goat Girl
54. Invasion of Privacy
    Cardi B
55. Assimilation
    Ben Vince
56. Yes I Jan
    Bas Jan
57. Sekundenschlaf
    тпсб
58. Thankful Villages, Vol. 1
    Darren Hayman
59. Hilja
    Cucina Povera
60. Sistahs
    Big Joanie
61. Bad Witch
    Nine Inch Nails
62. Euphoria
    Synth Sisters
63. AJA
    AJA
64. I Have Fought Against It, But I Can’t Any Longer.
    The Body
65. The Residue
    Manni Dee
66. Rezzett
    Rezzett
67. King of Cowards
    Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs
68. Only Love
    The Armed
69. Qualm
    Helena Hauff
70. Lady’s Mantle
    Jake Muir
71. Terminal
    ZULI
72. Thee Opener of the Way
    Primitive Knot
73. Faces of Earth
    Melting Hand
74. K.O.
    Miss Red
75. Magic & Machines
    Vanishing Twin
76. Anticlines
    Lucrecia Dalt
77. Red, White & Zero
    East Man
78. Veteran
    JPEGMAFIA
79. Whale City
    Warmduscher
80. Polish Space Program
    Xenony
81. Power
    Lotic
82. Landfall
    Laurie Anderson & Kronos Quartet
83. Basic Volume
    Gaika
84. Daqa'iq Tudaiq
    Jerusalem in My Heart
85. Thresholder
    Ian William Craig
86. Sinking into a Miracle
    AMOR
87. Bliss Signal
    Bliss Signal
88. Free Form
    Dizzy Fae
89. The Third Helix
    Drew McDowall
90. Goatherder
    Capitol K
91. Scented Pictures
    Nonpareils
92. Front Variations (One & Two)
    Richard Skelton
93. Mr. Dynamite
    Creep Show
94. iridescence
    BROCKHAMPTON
95. Sorrow
    David Terry
96. Le Kov
    Gwenno
97. Lala Belu
    Hailu Mergia
98. Omegaville
    Anthroprophh
99. Murmurations
    Simian Mobile Disco
100. Lekhfa
     Maryam Saleh, Maurice Louca & Tamer Abu Ghazaleh

Katy Waldman: Best Books of 2018, as published by The New Yorker

[see also 2020 • 2019 • 2017]

• Asymmetry
  Lisa Halliday
• Confessions of the Fox
  Jordy Rosenberg
• Ordinary People
  Diana Evans
• Small Fry
  Lisa Brennan-Jobs
• Convenience Store Woman
  Sayaka Murata
• Florida
  Lauren Groff
• Kudos
  Rachel Cusk
• Freshwater
  Akwaeke Emezi
• Immigrant, Montana
  Amitava Kumar

Hank Stuever: Best TV Shows of 2018, as published by The Washington Post

[see also 2020 • 2019 • 2017 • 2016]

Some notable additions, if this list could be longer

• The Handmaid’s Tale
• Lodge 49
• The Good Place
• Star Trek: Discovery
• Homecoming
• You
• This Is Us
• Glow

1. Barry
2. The Americans
3. Killing Eve
4. Escape at Dannemora
5. Kidding
6. Insecure
7. The Fourth Estate
8. The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
9. Atlanta
10. Forever

Stereogum: 50 Best Albums Of 2018

[see also 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2010s • 2019 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014 • 2013 • 2012 • 2011]

1. Golden Hour
   Kacey Musgraves
2. Lush
   Snail Mail
3. Sweetener
   Ariana Grande
4. Invasion of Privacy
   Cardi B
5. 7
   Beach House
6. Constant Image
   Flasher
7. Clean
   Soccer Mommy
8. Double Negative
   Low
9. God’s Favorite Customer
   Father John Misty
10. Be the Cowboy
    Mitski
11. Daytona
    Pusha T
12. Honey
    Robyn
13. Historian
    Lucy Dacus
14. FM!
    Vince Staples
15. And Nothing Hurt
    Spiritualized
16. iridescence
    BROCKHAMPTON
17. Lavender
    Half Waif
18. Bark Your Head Off, Dog
    Hop Along
19. Kiss Yr Frenemies
    illuminati hotties
20. At Weddings
    Tomberlin
21. El Mal Querer
    Rosalía
22. Time Will Die and Love Will Bury It
    Rolo Tomassi
23. Room 25
    Noname
24. Yolk in the Fur
    Wild Pink
25. Dose Your Dreams
    Fucked Up
26. In a Poem Unlimited
    U.S. Girls
27. abysskiss
    Adrianne Lenker
28. Isolation
    Kali Uchis
29. K.T.S.E.
    Teyana Taylor
30. Beyondless
    Iceage
31. Only Love
    The Armed
32. Devotion
    Tirzah
33. Skulls Example
    Dear Nora
34. Heaven and Earth
    Kamasi Washington
35. Some Rap Songs
    Earl Sweatshirt
36. Deafman Glance
    Ryley Walker
37. We Already Lost the World
    Birds In Row
38. Dirty Computer
    Janelle Monáe
39. Little Dark Age
    MGMT
40. Cocoa Sugar
    Young Fathers
41. How to Socialise & Make Friends
    Camp Cope
42. Death Spells
    Holy Fawn
43. Age Of
    Oneohtrix Point Never
44. TA13OO
    Denzel Curry
45. A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships
    The 1975
46. Singularity
    Jon Hopkins
47. Drip Harder
    Lil Baby & Gunna
48. Cheer
    Drug Church
49. Oil of Every Pearl’s Un-Insides
    Sophie
50. Nasty
    Rico Nasty

Sonia Saraiya: 10 Best TV Shows of 2018, as published by Vanity Fair

[see also 2021 • 2020 • 2010s • 2019 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015]

1. The Good Place
2. Killing Eve
3. Atlanta
4. BoJack Horseman
5. Patrick Melrose
6. Blue Planet II
7. Pose
8. High Maintenance
9. The Tale
10. Succession